Brian Gardner It’s no secret I’m a fan of Google Fonts, but I’m also an huge advocate of Typekit Fonts as well. I love the variety of fonts that Google offers, and they are free to use, but once in a while I want to take my website to a higher level.
Discussing the WordPress community with Remkus de Vries – Yoast
His name is Joeke-Remkus de Vries, but you can call him Remkus. You might know him by his online handle DeFries and you could have run into him at one of the many WordCamps around the world.
How Wapuu Created A Cultural Center for WordPress
The first time I went to a WordCamp I knew absolutely no one there and that made me a bit nervous, to say the least. I didn’t really know what to expect. I’d been to a few really big tradeshows and some educational conferences, and expected some hybrid of that, which isn’t too far off, …
A Beating in Berkeley
Berkeley As white supremacists go, Joey Gibson makes for a lousy one. For starters, he’s half Japanese. “I don’t feel like I’m Caucasian at all,” he says. Not to be a stickler for the rules, but this kind of talk could get you sent to Master Race remedial school.
The Month in WordPress: August 2017
While there haven’t been any major events or big new developments in the WordPress world this past month, a lot of work has gone into developing a sustainable future for the project. Read on to find out more about this and other interesting news from around the WordPress world in August.
You called it Gutenberg for a Reason.. That Doesn’t Make it Revolutionary. (An open response to Matt Mullenweg)
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and founder/director of the WordPress Foundation, recently wrote a blog post entitled “We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason”, which attempted to address the widespread concerns voiced about the direction of the new WordPress editor.
Google Is A Threat To The Free Flow Of Ideas And Democracy Itself
It’s been more than 70 years since we’ve seen a broad-based citizens movement against the power of monopoly. It’s long past time for one, and the following story is why. In late June, the European competition authority handed down a decision against Google for monopolizing the search market and suppressing rivals.
Goals, Shmoals
Howdy! Pardon me while I clear out the cobwebs in the blogging corner of this site. Recently I’ve started following the work of James Clear. He seems to be (at least trying to be) a 21st century version of Stephen Covey or maybe John Maxwell.
The Best Car-Camping Gear for Wheelchair Users
It is somewhat surprising that with approximately 8.7 million Americans using a mobility device such as a wheelchair, walker, or cane in their daily lives, no single online store or brick-and-mortar outlet serves as a hub for adaptive outdoor recreation equipment. Sportaid comes close, but is by no means comprehensive.
How to Create a Facebook Like Box Popup in WordPress
Do you want to promote your Facebook page in WordPress with a popup? Lightbox popups work really well to convert visitors into subscribers, and they work even better when promoting your Facebook page. In this article, we will show you how to effectively promote your Facebook page in WordPress with a lightbox popup without annoying your users.
Take Payments Easily with Jetpack’s Simple Payment Button
No matter what you use your Jetpack-powered site for, you want it to be successful — and profitable. But making money from your site has traditionally been a challenge if you don’t have the time to set up an online store. Well, now it’s easier to take payments for your products, services, or charity.
Outfitter Pro: Drive Sales with a Striking Storefront Display
Brian Gardner Outfitter Pro is a striking new storefront theme for Genesis. It was designed by Lauren Mancke, and offers a beautifully minimal look for your business. Built to integrate seamlessly with WooCommerce, and featuring a stylish masonry-style product display option for the homepage, Outfitter Pro will help you drive more sales by inviting click-throughs to product pages and making the checkout process as intuitive as possible.
#41752 (Remove SWFUpload) – WordPress Trac
Looking through that list, most plugins and themes haven’t been updated in the last couple of years. However there are few with lots of users: nextgen-gallery wysija-newsletters codestyling-localization wp-all-import profile-builder wp-filebase flash-album-gallery
Export
You can use the Export tool to backup all of your content or move your content to a new WordPress site. Manual export or Guided Transfer? Free, self-directed exports are optimal for people who merely want to save a copy of their content or who are comfortable migrating to other hosts without assistance.
Simpler On-the-Go Publishing: Background Media Uploading for Android
Add an image to a post or page, or ten images, or a hundred – you no longer have to wait around in the editor while your media uploads. Version 8.1 of the WordPress for Android app is now available, with some great enhancements to publishing: background media uploading.
WordPress.org Now Allows Plugin Authors to Specify a Minimum PHP Version Requirement
Although WordPress core currently maintains backwards compatibility with PHP 5.2.4+, plugin and theme authors are not required to do so. When developers include features that require more recent versions of PHP, it can break sites or cause otherwise unexpected behavior.
Gutenberg 1.0.0 Introduces Drag and Drop for Adding Image Blocks
Gutenberg 1.0.0 was released this week as another iteration in the beta period that will continue on with 1.1 next week. Design lead Tammie Lister said the team decided “not let numbers set expectations” and will carry on at the same pace with weekly releases.
Mining Adminers – Hackers Scan the Internet For DB Scripts
Denis Sinegubko Espanol Hackers are constantly scanning the internet for exploitable sites, which is why even small, new sites should be fully patched and protected. At the same time, it is not feasible to scan the whole internet with 330+ million domains and billions of web pages.
A Visit from St. Gutenberg
With little old MCE editor so lively and quick, Matt knew in a moment it was a St. Gutenberg trick. More rapid than eagles his programmers they came, And Matt whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: As code that before WordPress would fly, Now they met with an obstacle, Saint Gutenberg, oh why?
Gutenberg 0.6.0 Changes Text/Paragraph Block Behavior, Adds New Cover Text and Read More Blocks
Gutenberg 0.6.0 was released over the weekend with significant changes to the way paragraphs are created within text blocks. In previous versions of the plugin, pressing enter would create a line break inside a paragraph. This release modifies the behavior of the text/paragraph block to split the block when a user presses enter.
BuddyPress.org
BuddyPress is happy to announce the immediate availability of it’s latest release 2.9 ‘La Lombarda’ available for download or updatable from your WordPress install plugin directory. This release features a range of improvements and updates for both core functionality and templates.
I Almost Left Tech Today, Here’s Why – Code Like A Girl
Today I read an article on why so many women leave engineering, and wanted to share it with my colleagues. I am the only woman on a team of 8 (5 male developers, 1 male scrum master, 1 male product…
Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role
WASHINGTON – President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff.
Watch Our Sessions – WPCampus: Where WordPress Meets Higher Education
The following videos are sessions recorded from WPCampus conferences and from The WPCampus Podcast. You can also watch all of our videos on the WPCampus YouTube channel. If you are a speaker or guest in any of our videos, but your name is not listed, please let us know.
Gutenberg Contributors Explore Adding Drag-and-Drop and Multi-Column Support for Blocks
The new Gutenberg editor has an open ticket for allowing users to sort blocks via drag and drop. Blocks can currently be sorted with up and down arrows located to the left of the content but the beta only allows for single-column stacking.
You do not need a CSS Grid based Grid System
In the last couple of weeks I have started to see CSS Grid layout based frameworks and grid systems appearing. I’m actually surprised as to how long it has taken, but I am yet to see one that adds any value at all over just using CSS Grid Layout.
visit The site of Rachel Andrew, writer, speaker and web developer
Debugging WordPress: How to Use WP_DEBUG
Unfortunately, many developers don’t follow this advice simply because they forget about the debugging tools built-in to WordPress or just don’t know how to use them. In this post I’ll go through the basic debugging tools available and show you how easy they are to use.
Derrière dilemma of butt graffiti as keister caper continues to plague
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ( WFLA) – You could call it a derrière dilemma, a keister caper, or even a rump riddle. Ah, yes. It is sixth-grade humor at its finest with endless comical posterior possibilities. At the end of the day, however, what’s now being called “butt graffiti” is ultimately illegal.
Gutenberg 0.3.0 Adds Front-End Styles for Core Blocks, Notices Framework, and Text and Image Quick Inserts
Gutenberg development is marching ahead with version 0.3.0 released today. New releases are shipping out on a weekly basis, so testers will get to discover another round of new additions after updating to the latest.
Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
The tech industry has long suffered a gender imbalance, with companies such as Google and Facebook acknowledging how few women were in their ranks. Some female engineers have started to speak out on the issue, including a former Uber engineer who detailed a pattern of sexual harassment at the company, setting off internal investigations that spurred the resignation this month of Uber’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick.
CHOP Refuses Child a Transplant: Mom
A doctor at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia told the family of a 3-year-old girl that he would not perform a kidney transplant on the girl because she is mentally disabled, according to the family. Amelia Rivera will die if she does not get a new kidney and the doctor knows that, the family says.
SQL Injection Vulnerability in WP Statistics
As part of a vulnerability research project for our Sucuri Firewall, we have been auditing popular open source projects looking for security issues. While working on the WordPress plugin WP Statistics, we discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability. This plugin is currently installed on 300,000+ websites. Are You at Risk?
Inside Exploding Giant Firework Shell (3200 FPS Slow Motion)
Hey Guys! Today’s video is kinda unique. My good friend Ben Cusick from the YouTube channel NightHawkInLight is an expert in fireworks, so when I went to visit him a few months ago he brought up this idea of filming fireworks against a pane of glass so that we could see the igniting firework go off from the inside out!
Best Accessible WordPress Themes 2017
Choose one of the best Accessible WordPress themes of 2017 and make your site stand out from the crowd. Easy setup, responsive design included as standard.
What’s new in Gutenberg? (June 30)
0.3.0 🐡: Added framework for notices and implemented publishing and saving ones. Implemented tabs on the inserter. Added text and image quick inserts next to inserter icon at the end of the post. G…
WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris, it’s a wrap!
After a few days of rest, and a few more days wrapping up vendor invoices, gathering feedback, uploading more than 50 videos on WordPress.tv and tying up loose ends, we can really consider WordCamp Europe 2017…finished! We decided to share some data about the event, starting with attendance figures: 1,900 people from 79 countries were present.
GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn
WASHINGTON-Before the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers. In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter W.
Sense8 To Get A Wrap Up Special! – LezWatch TV
If there’s anything we should learn from it’s that’s we’re not alone and we should never give up. Sense8 was tragically canceled on June 1st, and we roared. We cried. We carried signs: you can see sense8 made a real difference and that makes me so emotional #pride2017 pic.twitter.com/Q0Lpdb8ysd – juliette.
Zillow Only Kinda Backs Down From Dubious McMansion Hell Threats Following EFF’s Engagement
The saga of Zillow’s totally bullshit legal threat has lasted all of three days. Following a terrible (and still wrong) attempt at damage control, Zillow has sent a note to all the reporters who have covered the story to say that it won’t be…
WordCamp Netherlands Reinstated for 2018
At WordCamp Europe I had the opportunity to speak with WordCamp Netherlands organizers Marcel Bootsman and Luc Princen, along with WordPress Global Community Team members Josepha Haden and Andrea Middleton. The group has had several conversations about the future of WordCamp Netherlands, which was shut down earlier this year in favor of city-based WordCamps, and have decided to reinstate the camp with a few conditions.
Why Remote Work Can’t Be Stopped
When Dell recently surveyed its 110,000 employees about their work habits, it discovered something surprising: While only 17% of Dell’s employees were formally authorized to work wherever they prefer, 58% were already working remotely at least one day a week. That’s good news, says Steve Price, chief human resources officer at Dell.
Markdown-powered creation of authentic-looking D&D Fifth Edition adventures
Scott Tolksdorf’s The Homebrewery: The Homebrewery makes the creation and sharing of authentic looking Fifth-Edition homebrews easy. It uses Markdown with a little CSS magic to make your brews come to life. I’m Dungeon Master of a group currently playing the Storm King’s Thunde adventure. Last weekend, my 12 year old nephew was visiting, and…
What’s New in Gutenberg? (June 5th)
Added multi-block selection support. Added version one of Freeform block. Animate block controls only on first appear. Accessibility improvements for FormToggle component. Added tests for Dashicon,…
Find Belonging, Support With An Entrepreneurial Peer Group
In 2010, I was going through a tough divorce (aren’t they all) while my business was starting to really take off. Despite the outward facing business success, I was also battling what I now know is pretty typical of the entrepreneurial experience: conflict, pain, stress, and perhaps burnout INSIDE my business.
visit Cory Miller | Experiments in Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Top Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
The report indicates that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood. It states unequivocally in its summary statement that it was Russian military intelligence, specifically the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that conducted the cyber attacks described in the document: Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors …
WordCamp Europe 2017 Livestream Tickets Now Available
WordCamp Europe will be livestreaming all sessions again this year to make the event accessible to those who are unable to travel to Paris. Live stream tickets are free, but viewers must sign up on the tickets page. Organizers have also set up a page on the event’s website for people to advertise for buying or selling tickets.
Vue.js Creator Evan You Weighs in on WordPress JavaScript Framework Discussion
Last week WordPress core contributors narrowed their considerations for a new JavaScript framework to React and Vue. As the core team has more collective knowledge of working with React, they have reached out to developers with different experiences of using other frameworks in a WordPress context.
These phrases in job listings seem harmless – but they should be a huge red flag
It’s no secret the tech industry is largely white and male. Anyone who doesn’t “fit the mold” faces challenges, from recruitment to the hiring process and throughout their careers. It’s no wonder Silicon Valley has an atrocious attrition rate. What people seldom talk about is how discrimination begins before applicants even get through the door.
JavaScript Chat Summary for May 30th
Foreword: The topic of integrating a new JavaScript framework in WordPress has proven to be both lively and contentious. The summary that follows is a best effort at an objective and accurate recap, but you are encouraged to review the original Slack transcript for the complete unaltered context ( Slack registration required).
Need to update package.json for Local v2.0 · Issue #3 · getflywheel/local-addon-volumes
The package.json file needs to be updated to install on Local by Flywheel 2.x The change is on https://github.com/getflywheel/local-addon-volumes/blob/master/package.json#L30 “local-by-flywheel”: “…